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by Allan Cole

Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes

Wicked WordPress Themes is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful themes for the world's most popular CMS, WordPress.

By following the book's advice, readers can produce designs that are aesthetically stunning, consistent, and for-purpose -whether it's for their own use, or to drive a high price on the theme marketplace.

All facets of theme design are covered: from desWicked WordPress Themes is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful themes for the world's most popular CMS, WordPress.

By following the book's advice, readers can produce designs that are aesthetically stunning, consistent, and for-purpose -whether it's for their own use, or to drive a high price on the theme marketplace.

All facets of theme design are covered: from design, coding, and deployment, to ensuring readers' designs are ready-to-go as soon as they're installed.

Wicked WordPress Themes teaches readers how to leverage theme design frameworks to dramatically shorten development time, enabling them to enter the theme market faster....more

This is an excellent primer with clear directions on how to build your own Wordpress Themes.

It is not intended to be an introduction to Wordpress, installation, management, etc. It assumes that the reader already has basic Wordpress skills and a clear understanding of HTML, CSS, some PHP/javascript/JQuery, etc.

This book had excellent information on creating a theme presented in a enjoyable and readable manner. I'd recommend it to anyone creating a theme. It goes into a reasonable depth without focusing on the detail. The only thing I found missing was walkers, but they are so specialized and code focused I found excluding them to be a reasonable choice.

Very helpful. My only hangup is that I wish it was more universal and not written with a certain framework (Thesis) in mind. But, if you are familiar with the WordPress set up, you can tweak and customize just about any theme or create your own child themes with the help of this book.

Finally a theming book that doesn't assume one is a designer and/or wants to start in Photoshop. This is a theming book for Wordpressers. Had to find the third (?) edition to have something on custom posts -> make sure you get hold of the newest edition,Finally a theming book that doesn't assume one is a designer and/or wants to start in Photoshop. This is a theming book for Wordpressers. Had to find the third (?) edition to have something on custom posts -> make sure you get hold of the newest edition,...more

Allan Cole was an American author and television writer, who wrote or co-wrote nearly thirty books.The son of a CIA operative, Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. He collaborated with Chris Bunch on the Sten science fiction series, as well the Far Kingdoms Series, and the historical novels, A Reckoning For Kings and Daughter Of LiberAllan Cole was an American author and television writer, who wrote or co-wrote nearly thirty books.The son of a CIA operative, Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. He collaborated with Chris Bunch on the Sten science fiction series, as well the Far Kingdoms Series, and the historical novels, A Reckoning For Kings and Daughter Of Liberty.

He co-authored a non-fiction book A Cop's Life with his uncle, Thomas Grubb; and a fantasy novel Lords Of Terror with Russian author Nick Perumov.His solo books include the fantasy novels that make up the Timura Trilogy and the thrillers, Dying Good and Drowned Hopes.

He sold more than a hundred television episodes, including ones for Quincy, M.E., The Rockford Files, The Incredible Hulk, Dinosaucers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Magnum, P.I., Werewolf, and Walker, Texas Ranger.

He was also a Los Angeles newspaper editor and investigative reporter for 14 years.

Cole was married to Chris Bunch's sister, Kathryn. He died of cancer in Boca Raton, Florida, aged 75, on March 29, 2019.[...more